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Engineer who can't function without AI
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You'd then be shocked by how many students at my university (in engineering btw) who simply take the assignment at hand, put it in chatGPT and submits it.
I half worry for society and half feel that as much as I feel bad about my coding abilities, I'm better than people who never actually bother learning the concepts themselves and fully outsource their homework to AI and that population is growing. It's a low bar but more people are failing to clear it every day!
Is you comment an attempt to undermine the value of a degree?
The students themselves are doing it, it's not the commenter's fault.
From the high school and university teachers I've talked to, AI is commonly used and it actively undermines their learning.
It's a pretty new tech so many schools don't have a solid policy on its use. It's a mess
No, my intention wasn't to undermine the value of a degree. I'm saying most people priorities for getting a degree, more specifically an engineering degree, is to just have a pay check. On a more related note, there's a lot of "engineering majors" that use artificial intelligence to code, who don't actually enjoy the process of learning at my uni.
So yea, at the rate of adoption and use of generative AI at my school, a pool boy can do what most of the sophomore engineers do.
TLDR "Well no but actually yes"
Using AI for everything rather than learning stops working entirely once you hit upper level courses - I can assure you most people who do this beyond sophomore year will not obtain a degree, especially at any research-oriented institution
I want to believe you, but the people at my school are abusing it a lot, to the point where i they just give an entire assignment through chatGPT and it gives them a solution.
The only time I see where it didn't fully work is using it for my skip list implementation. I asked a LLM to implement a skiplist with insert, delete, and get functionality. What it gave me is an implementation that traversed through the list as a standard linked list: it is unaware of the time complexity concept associated with the skiplist, and implements it as a standard O(1) linked list. It works, but it doesn't incorporate the "skipping" of nodes. I wonder how many student are shitting in their pants when they realize that the time isn't being reduced compared to a standard linked list.